Conservatives are focused on two main issues -- abortion and same-sex marriage -- while liberals spread their concerns more widely and focus on pocketbook issues like poverty and health care and jobs.

Given a list of eight issues, 83 percent of conservatives listed abortion as a priority and 65 percent said same-sex marriage. Immigration (26 percent) and poverty (23 percent) were well down the list, with health care (10 percent) and the environment (6 percent) barely making the cut. Eight in 10 conservatives also want to have marriage legally defined as between one man and one woman, while six in 10 progressives want marriage defined as the union of two people of either gender.

Hmm, seems to me that the conservatives are concerned with the size, weight, and intrusiveness of government. Oh yea, also at which level of government certain issues belong in our federal system. Concern about taxes, a government that is working hard at destroying the jobs left.

Seems the Democrats want to grow the debt and power of the Federal government. They want to make as many people as possible dependent on the government, not themselves.

Abortion and same sex marriage aren't even on the map. Thank you Rdean and Axelrod.

Hmm, seems to me that the conservatives are concerned with the size, weight, and intrusiveness of government. Oh yea, also at which level of government certain issues belong in our federal system. Concern about taxes, a government that is working hard at destroying the jobs left.

Seems the Democrats want to grow the debt and power of the Federal government. They want to make as many people as possible dependent on the government, not themselves.

Abortion and same sex marriage aren't even on the map. Thank you Rdean and Axelrod.

Hmm, seems to me that the conservatives are concerned with the size, weight, and intrusiveness of government. Oh yea, also at which level of government certain issues belong in our federal system. Concern about taxes, a government that is working hard at destroying the jobs left.

Seems the Democrats want to grow the debt and power of the Federal government. They want to make as many people as possible dependent on the government, not themselves.

Abortion and same sex marriage aren't even on the map. Thank you Rdean and Axelrod.

Hmm, seems to me that the conservatives are concerned with the size, weight, and intrusiveness of government. Oh yea, also at which level of government certain issues belong in our federal system. Concern about taxes, a government that is working hard at destroying the jobs left.

Seems the Democrats want to grow the debt and power of the Federal government. They want to make as many people as possible dependent on the government, not themselves.

Abortion and same sex marriage aren't even on the map. Thank you Rdean and Axelrod.

How many did you have to look through to find the Republican Party platform for one small northern state that wasn't anti gay? In Texas, they want to make gay marriage a "felony". I suspect more Republicans share the views of Texas.

I would have been surprised if ALL Republicans state platforms were against the gays. Or not.

How many did you have to look through to find the Republican Party platform for one small northern state that wasn't anti gay? In Texas, they want to make gay marriage a "felony". I suspect more Republicans share the views of Texas.

I would have been surprised if ALL Republicans state platforms were against the gays. Or not.

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Closest I've come to negging for a post written in honesty. Damn. You are such a tool, rdean.

How many did you have to look through to find the Republican Party platform for one small northern state that wasn't anti gay? In Texas, they want to make gay marriage a "felony". I suspect more Republicans share the views of Texas.

I would have been surprised if ALL Republicans state platforms were against the gays. Or not.

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Closest I've come to negging for a post written in honesty. Damn. You are such a tool, rdean.

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I looked through a dozen state Republican Platforms and every single one had something anti gay. From making gays criminal to banning gay adoption to making gay marriage a felony. Just singling gays out specifically to deny them what others can easily gat is "discrimination", there is no other way around it.

The ones I read were also anti women's rights. Massachusetts was the first one I saw that wasn't anti women's rights.

I never said they were all anti gay or all anti women's rights, but from the dozen or so I read and the single one that someone pointed out, wouldn't you say there was definitely a "trend"?????

Republicans can't possibly, even remotely suggest that the majority of their political party isn't anti gay or anti women's rights. It would be like saying that very close to 90% of the Republican Party isn't white and mostly Christian. It just wouldn't be true.

Conservatives are focused on two main issues -- abortion and same-sex marriage -- while liberals spread their concerns more widely and focus on pocketbook issues like poverty and health care and jobs.

Given a list of eight issues, 83 percent of conservatives listed abortion as a priority and 65 percent said same-sex marriage. Immigration (26 percent) and poverty (23 percent) were well down the list, with health care (10 percent) and the environment (6 percent) barely making the cut. Eight in 10 conservatives also want to have marriage legally defined as between one man and one woman, while six in 10 progressives want marriage defined as the union of two people of either gender.

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